Your roommate has a lot to learn. One's talents only make them superior at that one thing and even there by a very small margin that only amounts to picking up knowledge a tad quicker and with a bit less effort. Still means you're just as dumb as everyone if you don't invest the gruntwork.
What about those of us who were never told by our parents we were good at anything, rather below average than precious snowflakes. Where do we get our sense of exelence and whatever else makes us think we should be paid huge amounts of moneys?
Oh that's right, it's that wherever you look in this day and age 90% of the populace are clueless idiots who rarely, if ever, look at anythign outside shcool curriculum. Hell, I've seen worse job applications from college graduates than I used to send out when I was in my senior high school year. Actual knowledge is also on about the same level.
I wholeheartedly agree. A basestar full of Sixes please. There doesn't have to be anything much more in the show, perhaps a very thin plot, some not very good acting, Ron Jeremy or two.
It would be the most watched television series of all time.
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Clients and crowdsourcing.
The more and better people you know, the more clients you can potentially reel in and, of course, the more people from your field you know, the quicker you'll find someone who can help you out of a snag.
In short, they're counting on the idea that hiring you they're implicitly also hiring all of your professional contacts - completely for free.
I got FTTH at home some months ago and I also get television and telephone via that cable. Telephone and internet have worked _flawlessly_ the whole time. No packet loss, no speed loss, just perfect. Television seems to skip a frame or two every once in a while though.
Then again, this is the ISP that for a long while resisted FTTH and only adopted it after all its competitors did. So I guess they wanted to make a really good service so as not to lose any more customers.
Around here FTTH is offered at speeds up to 1000/1000, but rare people could afford the price tag so most of us go with either 10/10 or 20/20 depending on which ISP we choose.
We've had this in Europe for a while now, especially on vending machines and other such silly stuff, but almost nobody uses it. Not exactly certain why people don't use it, but it's just never quite caught on.
I think it's because we're all too conscious of our phone bills and don't want things like coke and such messing them up and making us think we've blabbed our mouth off too much. Or maybe it's because only certain cell phone carriers were in on the deal, thus leaving half of us without the option.
Yes, I'm fairly certain adding more and better screens, adding a dual core double fast CPU, quadrupling the RAM and so on has at least quadrupled its power consumption over the past eight years.
My computer doubles as the music streamer I listen to at work. It also doubles as the router my family uses to access the internet. It also doubles as a file server.
I do turn off the screens and speakers when I'm not around though. That counts as a good effort right?
Oh you mean like when the computer displayin MRI imagery screws up? Or the computer talking between the hospital and your insurance policy? Or the computer doing traffic lights? Or the computer running your car? Or the computer reading radar data for an air control tower?
Seriously, there ARE other companies out there making software that are not diebold and can make something as simple as a counter... hell, they can probably make the complex stuff work too since it's obviously worked rather well in the past.
The realisation came from finally being fed up with going over and over everything that was bugging me so I decided to look around and see what others were doing. Upon beginning said observation I realised that 80% of them did anything that I briefly mentioned would be a good idea. They seem to have taken any of my shrugged-off suggestions as instructions on what to do.
The most revealing was that this wasn't happening just with my peers, but with my boss, coworkers and so on. So I took the clue and started working on my socialising skills... they're still a work in progress of course.
Plus one to that. Soon after I started working out I started getting serious attention from the girls. Sure they say it's because I have great hair, or because I have cool clothing or simply because no matter what I wear I look great. Well guess why, I press their subconscious mating buttons with my buff-nes even though I don't feel very buff myself.
Geeks, work out, it's like an RPG you just train and the stats go up up and up some more.
Interesting, my self-esteem was ruined when I hit puberty at aroudn 14, then when I left the hard bits of puberty at around 19 my self-esteem automagically returned. I don't know quite why or how, but I realised I was better than everyone and could make anyone dance however I wanted them to.
It's quite an empowering feeling so I am now more sociable than I used to be. Because it's fun. But only for as long as it remains fun because let's face it, most people aren't worth socialising with.
You don't have to work 40hrs/week. Personally I work much less than that so as to have time for school and grade acquiring. Nobody said you needed a full-time job, just something that allows you to get experience and other stuff that makes you better than someone who just has the grades.
You must've done _something_ right, because I know for a fact no matter how much networking you do, if you suck nobody will hire you. But if you do no networking and are very good, then chances are, somebody will still hire you once you shove yourself under their nose and tell them you want to work.
Grades only matter if you want to work in academia (be a real scientist). Otherwise grades are only spice on top of your education. Not the other way around.
Academia jobs, I believe, prefer people without experience because they aren't yet spoiled by the real world, just as corporations and such prefer people with as much experience as possible because they've "forgotten the useless crap from school".
So really, depends on what you want to do, but working in the real world both pays better and is, to me, more gratifying since you see your creations put to work instead of just being peer-reviewed and if you're lucky at one point adopted by a real-world guy.
I've always found it incredibly stupid for a person to just go to school without doing anything on the side. First time I started working on projects on the side was in first year of high school when I played around with phpBB and later on started working on some of my own stuff. Of course during the summers I've had programming related jobs all through high school, makes sense really since there's heaps of empty time.
During last year of high school I also started working lightly during regular school months and it's really paid off. Two years into college now and I've already got a few years of real-world experience under my belt. When I get out of college... whenever that happens... I'll be far from an empty slate and it thus shouldn't be too difficult getting a job. If all else fails I can just continue working for the people I'm already working for since we seem to be getting along well.
Seriously, any still-schooling people otu there reading this. GET A FUCKING JOB because grades DO NOT MATTER!
To be fair, I know a LOT of people who would go to a Mozart or somesuch concert and truly appreciate it... if only the tickets for such things weren't obscenely and idiotically overpriced. We've grown up in a time when music can be "found" on the internet for free and have gotten used to it. We don't like spending big bucks on some concert when we can get a similarly good concert in a different genre for free somewhere else.
I'd be just as hard pressed finding people willing to go to a Beatles concert (if it wasn't free) as I am finding people for a Mozart concert.
It's not that I don't like the Beatles, it's just that whenever I tried giving them the chance to impress me I was like "Ok, so it's like some sort of 1960's version of Britney Spears. Where's the bit that's supposed to make me fall madly in love with their music?" and nobody could ever provide me with an answer.
So perhaps you could enlighten me, WHAT is so awesome about The Beatles, what the flying fuck is so special about them except they had insanely good marketers at a time when music wasn't yet used to the big record companies we know today?
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Your roommate has a lot to learn. One's talents only make them superior at that one thing and even there by a very small margin that only amounts to picking up knowledge a tad quicker and with a bit less effort. Still means you're just as dumb as everyone if you don't invest the gruntwork.
Spellcheckers are for pussies, I just read everything twice ...
... sometimes.
What about those of us who were never told by our parents we were good at anything, rather below average than precious snowflakes. Where do we get our sense of exelence and whatever else makes us think we should be paid huge amounts of moneys?
Oh that's right, it's that wherever you look in this day and age 90% of the populace are clueless idiots who rarely, if ever, look at anythign outside shcool curriculum. Hell, I've seen worse job applications from college graduates than I used to send out when I was in my senior high school year. Actual knowledge is also on about the same level.
You can't even expect a human to remember what happened on "today" last year and you want something with a brain the size of a tennis ball to do it?
I wholeheartedly agree. A basestar full of Sixes please. There doesn't have to be anything much more in the show, perhaps a very thin plot, some not very good acting, Ron Jeremy or two.
It would be the most watched television series of all time.
Clients and crowdsourcing.
The more and better people you know, the more clients you can potentially reel in and, of course, the more people from your field you know, the quicker you'll find someone who can help you out of a snag.
In short, they're counting on the idea that hiring you they're implicitly also hiring all of your professional contacts - completely for free.
Those of us who find it prohibitively slow at times care.
Piracy doesn't hurt sales. Content that isn't worth the money it's being sold for hurts sales ;)
Question for you: if you SO hate quicktime. Why not just use VLC? It plays everything and their mother.
I got FTTH at home some months ago and I also get television and telephone via that cable. Telephone and internet have worked _flawlessly_ the whole time. No packet loss, no speed loss, just perfect. Television seems to skip a frame or two every once in a while though.
Then again, this is the ISP that for a long while resisted FTTH and only adopted it after all its competitors did. So I guess they wanted to make a really good service so as not to lose any more customers.
FTTH is an option. A lovely option at that. ;)
Around here FTTH is offered at speeds up to 1000/1000, but rare people could afford the price tag so most of us go with either 10/10 or 20/20 depending on which ISP we choose.
We've had this in Europe for a while now, especially on vending machines and other such silly stuff, but almost nobody uses it. Not exactly certain why people don't use it, but it's just never quite caught on.
I think it's because we're all too conscious of our phone bills and don't want things like coke and such messing them up and making us think we've blabbed our mouth off too much. Or maybe it's because only certain cell phone carriers were in on the deal, thus leaving half of us without the option.
Yes, I'm fairly certain adding more and better screens, adding a dual core double fast CPU, quadrupling the RAM and so on has at least quadrupled its power consumption over the past eight years.
My computer doubles as the music streamer I listen to at work. It also doubles as the router my family uses to access the internet. It also doubles as a file server.
I do turn off the screens and speakers when I'm not around though. That counts as a good effort right?
Oh you mean like when the computer displayin MRI imagery screws up? Or the computer talking between the hospital and your insurance policy? Or the computer doing traffic lights? Or the computer running your car? Or the computer reading radar data for an air control tower?
... hell, they can probably make the complex stuff work too since it's obviously worked rather well in the past.
Seriously, there ARE other companies out there making software that are not diebold and can make something as simple as a counter
The realisation came from finally being fed up with going over and over everything that was bugging me so I decided to look around and see what others were doing. Upon beginning said observation I realised that 80% of them did anything that I briefly mentioned would be a good idea. They seem to have taken any of my shrugged-off suggestions as instructions on what to do.
... they're still a work in progress of course.
The most revealing was that this wasn't happening just with my peers, but with my boss, coworkers and so on. So I took the clue and started working on my socialising skills
Plus one to that. Soon after I started working out I started getting serious attention from the girls. Sure they say it's because I have great hair, or because I have cool clothing or simply because no matter what I wear I look great. Well guess why, I press their subconscious mating buttons with my buff-nes even though I don't feel very buff myself.
Geeks, work out, it's like an RPG you just train and the stats go up up and up some more.
Interesting, my self-esteem was ruined when I hit puberty at aroudn 14, then when I left the hard bits of puberty at around 19 my self-esteem automagically returned. I don't know quite why or how, but I realised I was better than everyone and could make anyone dance however I wanted them to.
It's quite an empowering feeling so I am now more sociable than I used to be. Because it's fun. But only for as long as it remains fun because let's face it, most people aren't worth socialising with.
You don't have to work 40hrs/week. Personally I work much less than that so as to have time for school and grade acquiring. Nobody said you needed a full-time job, just something that allows you to get experience and other stuff that makes you better than someone who just has the grades.
Why work menial IT crap? I work as a senior developer ;)
Then again I might be in a unique position of having been programming for more than half of my life.
You must've done _something_ right, because I know for a fact no matter how much networking you do, if you suck nobody will hire you. But if you do no networking and are very good, then chances are, somebody will still hire you once you shove yourself under their nose and tell them you want to work.
Grades only matter if you want to work in academia (be a real scientist). Otherwise grades are only spice on top of your education. Not the other way around.
Academia jobs, I believe, prefer people without experience because they aren't yet spoiled by the real world, just as corporations and such prefer people with as much experience as possible because they've "forgotten the useless crap from school".
So really, depends on what you want to do, but working in the real world both pays better and is, to me, more gratifying since you see your creations put to work instead of just being peer-reviewed and if you're lucky at one point adopted by a real-world guy.
I've always found it incredibly stupid for a person to just go to school without doing anything on the side. First time I started working on projects on the side was in first year of high school when I played around with phpBB and later on started working on some of my own stuff. Of course during the summers I've had programming related jobs all through high school, makes sense really since there's heaps of empty time.
... whenever that happens ... I'll be far from an empty slate and it thus shouldn't be too difficult getting a job. If all else fails I can just continue working for the people I'm already working for since we seem to be getting along well.
During last year of high school I also started working lightly during regular school months and it's really paid off. Two years into college now and I've already got a few years of real-world experience under my belt. When I get out of college
Seriously, any still-schooling people otu there reading this. GET A FUCKING JOB because grades DO NOT MATTER!
To be fair, I know a LOT of people who would go to a Mozart or somesuch concert and truly appreciate it ... if only the tickets for such things weren't obscenely and idiotically overpriced. We've grown up in a time when music can be "found" on the internet for free and have gotten used to it. We don't like spending big bucks on some concert when we can get a similarly good concert in a different genre for free somewhere else.
I'd be just as hard pressed finding people willing to go to a Beatles concert (if it wasn't free) as I am finding people for a Mozart concert.
It's not that I don't like the Beatles, it's just that whenever I tried giving them the chance to impress me I was like "Ok, so it's like some sort of 1960's version of Britney Spears. Where's the bit that's supposed to make me fall madly in love with their music?" and nobody could ever provide me with an answer.
So perhaps you could enlighten me, WHAT is so awesome about The Beatles, what the flying fuck is so special about them except they had insanely good marketers at a time when music wasn't yet used to the big record companies we know today?